Lingering States – Films in Suspension
We’re delighted to contribute to the 42nd INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin, taking place from 10–15 November 2026. As part of Focus 5: Shared Shores, we’re pleased to present Lingering States – Films in Suspension, co-curated by Amélia Umuhire and Davood Madadpoor.
Join us for the screenings in Berlin at Zeiss-Großplanetarium and SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.The screening of All This Death will be followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Fadi Syriani, moderated by Diane Izabiliza and Davood Madadpoor.
Lingering States – Films in Suspension
In Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and many other places that are either in or between wars, people face displacement, economic precarity, and uncertain futures. Persistent conditions that structure daily life and create an atmosphere shaped by repetition, delay, uncertainty, and an ongoing sense of suspension. The films in this program are less concerned with events but rather with the mental and temporal conditions they produce.
They are approached as responses to a shared state, while remaining attentive to their formal articulations, tracing how these conditions gradually find their way into form, appearing through interruptions, repetition, dissonance, moments where meaning hesitates or slips.
This program does not offer direct explanations or literal representations. Instead, it features films that engage uncertainty as a working condition and sustain it as an open inquiry, inviting a mode of attention grounded in the present rather than afar analysis.
Films in the programme:
A Dream Pointing to Aadchit
Ghinwa Yassine
Canada, Lebanon / 2026 / 17 min
Haunted by a recurrent dream of her grandfather turning the soil in her childhood home, G decides to go back to Aadchit, a small village in the south of Lebanon, where she finds her memories changed by the war.
Ebb & Flow
Nay Tabbara
Lebanon, United States, Qatar / 2024 / 18 min
Determined to experience her first kiss, a young teenage girl defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy.
All This Deat
Fadi Syriani
Poland, Lebanon, Qatar, France, Germany / 2025 / 16 min
Vladimir, an elderly resident of Beirut, checks the obituary page and attends funerals daily. His “mourning” routine enables him to grieve and accept the loss of a loved one, a home, a city.
History Perched On A Needle
Sina Khanahmadi
Iran / 2026 / 28 min
In January 2026, merchants and shopkeepers protesting the economic situation take to the streets in Tehran. A very personal memoir of everyday life lived under the shadow of these dark and ominous days.
Screening Schedule:
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 · 20:30
Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin
Prenzlauer Allee 80
10405 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
Saturday, 14 November 2026 · 20:30
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin
Lindower Str. 20/22/Haus C
13347 Berlin